Samaritans

One of the most striking shops on George Street is the Samaritans charity shop. When I walked past the other day, the staff had clearly designed the window dispays to match the shop sign with the models dressed in bright green, acid green and dark green clothes and surrounded by green accessories!
The inside of the shop is more subdued thankfully, with men, women and childrens clothes neatly divided into different sizes, styles and colours. Occasionally, you might see a designer offering but the majority of the time it’s traditional high street labels like M&S, The Gap and Debenhams. There’s also a small selection of shoes, hats, belts, accessories and jewellery — some vintage, some genuinely fabulous and some criminally bad. If you already have a full wardrobe, the other side of the shop includes childrens toys, records, CDs, DVDs, books and board games.

The Samaritan charity shop had a really nice energy about it. I think it was the cosy size, the smell of incense and the fact that the woman behind the counter was knitting, but looked up to say hello. I bet the incense is to cover the must — as I didn’t smell any.
Other than the usual clothes and housing items, Samaritan had some board games (including classic 20 Questions), some greeting cards, a suitcase full of toys, CDs, vinyl, DVDs and 99p paperbacks. All of them! 99p! Done and Done.
There was a sign up asking for donations of warm winter clothing. I recommend this little shop, especially for books, and if you can, bring an old coat or mittens along.